Attention advertising : the cultural economy of voluntary watching and involuntary looking

This thesis investigates the visual event of consuming advertisements as a form of labour. Using Heller’s "attention theory of value", the thesis argues that among the most valuable forms of labour in today’s capitalist society is the productive value of human attention. The attention of v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shortt, Jennifer
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18152